Redford B. Williams, M.D.

Chief, Division of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Department:
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Division:
Behavioral Psychiatry

Email:
redfordwacpubdukeedu

Mailing Address:
Box 3926, DUMC
Durham, NC 27710

Telephone:
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Training:
M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

Last Updated:
January 30, 1997

Clinical Interests:
Biofeedback and other behavioral approaches to treating or preventing physicaldisorders, hostility and anger control, various pain syndromes, headache

Research Interests:
My research aims to identify psychosocial factors that are involved in the pathogenesis and course of major medical disorders, to characterize the biobehavioral mechanisms whereby such factors influence disease, and to develop both behavioral and pharmacologic means of preventing or ameliorating the adverse impact of psychosocial factors on health and disease.  Specific projects that are currently active include:  1) The influence of hostile personality, social isolation and depression upon the course of coronary heart disease; 2) Biological mechanisms whereby hostility influences health; 3) Behavioral approaches to amelioration of job stress; 4) Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to reduce psychobological manifestations of stress in person with hostile personality; 5) Use of SSRIs to treat depression in patients surviving a myocardial infarction; 6) Psychobiological effects of violence in film and television; 7) Use of support groups to provide training in hostility control andstress management in managed care setting; and 8) Demographic manifestations of stress and hostility in U.S. cities.

Publications:
1994 -- Williams, R.B. Neurobiology, cellular and molecular biology, and psychosomatic medicine. PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE, 56: 308-315, 1994.

1992 -- Williams, R.B., Barefoot, J.C., Califf, R.M., Haney, T.L., Saunders, W.B., Pryor, D.B., Hlatky, M.A., Siegler, I.C., & Mark, D.B. Prognostic importance of social and economic resources among medically treated patients with angiographically documented coronary artery disease. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 267: 520-524, 1992.

1987 -- Williams, R.B. Psychological factors in coronary artery disease: Epidemiologic evidence. CIRCULATION, 76: 117-123, 1987.

1982 -- Williams, R.B., Lane, J.D., Kuhn, C.M., Melosh, W., White, A.D. & Schanberg, S.M. Type A behavior and elevated physiological and neuroendocrine responses to cognitive tasks. SCIENCE, 218: 483-485, 1982.

1980 -- Williams, R.B., Haney, T.L., Blumenthal, J.A., & Kong, Y. Type A behavior, hostility, and coronary atherosclerosis. PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE, 42(6): 539-549, 1980.